Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: revamped. The Law Society of Kenya that we have now, like many of us, falls into the trap of passing another law every other time that we have an issue. If you look at our Constitution now, we are not even looking at why we passed that Constitution in terms of moving this society forward. We have become trapped in legalities, names, that is, who is going to be called a Senator or a county MP, which is a bigger House and which one is a smaller House and so on. We forget that we were passing the Constitution so ... view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as we go along you know that unlike the medical profession, lawyers are not meant to serve Government time even though they study on Government money. I think it is time as a country we applied a programme after the School of Law where lawyers work for the Government and public institutions for a minimum of six months before they go off to the profession. I think that the country would reap a lot of benefits in the Director of Public Prosecutions Office, the investigation department and State counsel departments across the counties. I think that ... view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: On the Medium Development Goals (MDGs), you know that after 2015 the United Nations (UN) member states are looking at the new sets of MDGs. Again, from my own experience in Kituo Cha Sheria, we found that a lot of poor people are excluded from many things and one of the things that they need the most sometimes even before the land that they are looking for is the services of a lawyer. Poor people sometimes get a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from ... view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: title deed today and go tomorrow to the market, sell the land at very poor rates and give the land almost for free. We want legal empowerment to be part of the next set of MDGs in the UN system. The LSK would be charged with some of those conversations and noting that Kenya already has an expert appointed by Ban Ki Moon, the Secretary- General of the UN system, to sit in those conversations, the LSK would have a mandate of looking into matters of legal empowerment and ensuring that in the next set of MDGs we have attention ... view
• 13 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support this law and LSK. I really stand to be counted as a lawyer. Thank you. view
• 11 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I also rise to support the Motion for the constitution of the House Business Committee. I want to urge the House to support the Motion because the House Business Committee in the last session did a lot of work beyond its mandate. That is because we were settling as a new House or new Chamber with more Members. So, the House Business Committee was always called upon to do more than what it is set to do. view
• 11 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: The committee as set up used to take four or five hours. So, as we support the Motion, I also urge the House Business Committee to look into Private Members’ Bills. It The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 11 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: is regrettable that in the last Session, not a single Private Member’s law was passed by this Assembly. I hope that there will be more Private Members’ Bill in the next session. Hon. Members are encouraged to bring their Bills so that we can have more of Private Members’ Bills in this session alongside Government legislations. view
• 11 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: I support this Motion. view
• 5 Dec 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. Fortunately, for law there is always one hand and the other hand. So, I stand to speak for the other hand. I think that this list would be very useful. We are in a country where insurance companies cannot even operate. They are closing every other day. This is because many ambulance chasers ask for indeterminable rates of compensation. I think it is important that the law has a guideline. I do not think that any judge is bound not to consider any other factors by this list but it is important that Parliament ... view